Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came & went, and U. S. headlines were again reassuring. Next day, in an editorial entitled "Der Tag," the New York Times suggested that publicity was good for war scares: "Never before have Governments and peoples been so alert to danger as they are today. That explains the constant alarm signals. Perhaps it also explains why 'the day' is always postponed...
Since there had been no army mobilization on this scale in Germany since 1914, the reactions of the German people last week were marked nervousness and alarm -reactions noted and factually cabled by the leading correspondents in Germany, quite unhindered. It was pikestaff plain that Adolf Hitler wanted all Europe to hear about and be frightened by his mobilization. Der Führer, who thus far has had only to rattle the German sword to get what he wanted piecemeal, was rattling his loudest for the benefit of Lord Runciman in Prague...
Vacationing at Manasquan, N. J., Assistant Fire Chief John Black of North Arlington was in swimming when a fire alarm sounded. In his bathing suit Chief Black dashed to the fire, climbed a ladder, entered the blazing building barefoot. Few minutes later he was carried out suffering from cuts and hotfoot...
...Yellowstone National Park to Pittsburgh's Highland Park Zoo. Early one morning last week, Too Tough, crazed by the sun baking her steel-barred cage, ripped off its wooden roof, lumbered out. When a pedestrian saw her waddle wild-eyed into a public street, the police gave the alarm, closed the park streets to traffic, drove moppets out of the park swimming pool. After a five-hour police search a park workman walked down into an underpass, found the bear holed up in a cool corner. Driven out by a machine-gun barrage, Too Tough reared...
...only thing I can see is that the New Deal is a Paul Revere ridin' hell-for-leather down Main Street spreadin' the alarm that the right way is the left way-and funny thing, damn...